Gooseberry Fool

Ingredients

• 2 quarts green gooseberries
• loaf sugar
• water
• rich boiled custard
• frothed cream

Instructions

1. Pick the stems and blossoms from two quarts of green gooseberries.
2. Put them in a stew pan with their weight in loaf sugar and a very little water.
3. When sufficiently stewed, pass the pulp through a sieve.
4. When cold, add rich boiled custard till it is like thick cream.
5. Put it in a glass bowl and lay frothed cream on the top.